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Antimacassar
//ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə// noun
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Noun
- 1 A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa.
"She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an after-dinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel."
- 2 a piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of a chair from hair oils wordnet
Etymology
From anti- + macassar. Antimacassars were originally used to protect upholstery from being soiled by macassar oil in the sitter's hair.
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